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December 20, 2021 17:22

• Week of December 13-19 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from December 13 to December 19, 2021, the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus brought no information about any casualties or wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

December 20, 2021 17:05

• Native of Egypt accuses Kuban law enforcers of illegal criminal prosecution

  Karim Fuad and his wife, Anastasia Marchenko, has complained to the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) about actions of law enforcers, who had falsified two criminal cases against Fuad, planted drugs and damaged property during a search of their house located in the Zelenchuk farmstead of the Gulkevichi District in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the major river). In the complainants' opinion, the criminal prosecution has a xenophobic background.

December 20, 2021 11:39

• Former head of Georgia's General Staff detained in Germany

  In Berlin, at the request of Georgian authorities, Giorgi Kalandadze, a former head of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces, has been detained.

December 20, 2021 11:25

• Georgian citizen released in South Ossetia

  The South-Ossetian authorities have released Gela Gochoshvili, who was detained in August for trespassing the border, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has informed.

December 20, 2021 11:11

• Armenia confirms return of ten POWs from Azerbaijan

  The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has announced the names of ten military servicemen who were returned to their homeland; on November 16, they were taken prisoners of war (POWs) by Azerbaijan.

December 20, 2021 10:56

• Saakashvili's supporters urge policemen to stop politically motivated detentions

  Supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). They called for the release of the oppositional politician and demanded from the police to stop political persecution of the opposition.

December 19, 2021 15:41

• Activist Salekh Rustamov is on the mend

  After he stopped his long hunger strike, the health condition of the Azerbaijani activist, Salekh Rustamov, began improving, said Adil Geibulla, a doctor.

December 19, 2021 15:37

• YouTube users treat appeal to Putin in support of Ingush activists as senseless

  Salman Geroev, a Kazakhstani public figure of Ingush origin, has called on the Russian president "not to be an enemy of the Ingush people" and to intervene in the situation with the verdicts rendered to seven Ingush activists. The verdicts were passed with authorities' awareness, while an appeal to Putin is doomed to failure in advance, commentators on the YouTube have noted.

December 19, 2021 15:32

• New inquiry into torture of figurants in "Terter Case" encourages rights defenders

  Azeri law enforcement bodies have announced a restart of criminal proceedings on complaints of torture of the Azerbaijani militaries suspected of treason.

December 19, 2021 11:51

• On complaint of Gyulyalyev's relatives, GPO finds no corpus delicti in doctors' actions

  The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has refused to initiate a criminal case against doctors on the complaint lodged by relatives of Ogtai Gyulyalyev, a human rights defender, about doctors' failure to provide him with proper medical care. The GPO sees no corpus delicti in doctors' actions, Mekhman Aliev, the director of the "Turan" News Agency, has informed.

December 18, 2021 15:11

• Rally in support of Ingush protest leaders ends with picketer's detention

  Law enforcers have detained Isa Bekov, a resident of Ingushetia, during his solo picket in support of the leaders of the republic's protests. After drawing up a protocol on violation of the mask regime, the picketer was released.

December 18, 2021 14:59

• After return from Syria, Dagestani children placed under quarantine

  After medical examination, nine children evacuated from Damascus, will be sent to their relatives in Dagestan, Maria Lvova-Belova, the plenipotentiary for children's rights under the Russian President, has informed. By the children's arrival, their relatives document custody and receive the right to benefits and social welfare, said Marina Yezhova, the children's Ombudsperson of Dagestan.

December 18, 2021 12:59

• Kadyrov uses Mitsaeva to demonstrate his mercy

  The sumptuous welcoming provided to Rubati Mitsaeva by Chechen authorities is no evidence of the woman's importance; Ramzan Kadyrov only uses her to demonstrate his mercy to former opponents, Alexei Malashenko has pointed out. Mitsaeva cannot be perceived as an independent figure, but Kadyrov earned points on her, Ruslan Kutaev believes.

December 18, 2021 12:54

• Resonance in social networks entails threat for Makhachkala dancer

  The girl who danced a frank dance in Makhachkala hid her face, realizing that she would be condemned, but the police could find her and take care of her safety, Albert Esedov, a political analyst, believes. The video clip was an advertising action of a store, Shamil Khadulaev, the chairman of the Coordination Council of Dagestani NGOs, has suggested.

December 18, 2021 11:31

• Election of Mayor of Armenian city of Talin ends in scandal

  The candidate for the city Mayor, nominated by the winning opposition bloc, at the sitting of the Council of Elders, himself voted for his opponent from the ruling party, and endured by doing so the majority of votes for him.

December 17, 2021 23:59

• Resident of Dagestan confesses to murder of a sorcerer

  The police detained a man suspected of murdering a woman in Makhachkala. He explained that the woman had driven genies into him.

December 17, 2021 23:58

• Lawyers argue about ways to mitigate sentence to leaders of Ingush protest

  In addition to an appeal, seven leaders of the protest in Ingushetia sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, can address the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), suggests Vladimir Novitsky, the president of the Russian section of the International Society for Human Rights.

December 17, 2021 23:57

• Film director Sokurov complains about threats to his life received from Chechnya

  In his appeal to the Human Rights Council (HRC), film director Alexander Sokurov apologized for what had happened at a meeting with the Russian President. The film director also said that he had received warnings from friends about the threat to his life.

December 17, 2021 23:54

• AI condemns dispersal of peaceful protestors in Azerbaijan

  The human rights organization “Amnesty International” (AI) condemned the authorities of Azerbaijan for dispersing peaceful protests, in particular, a protest action on December 1. The human rights defenders called for respect for freedom of assembly.

December 17, 2021 15:46

• Azerbaijani journalists demand not to adopt new law "On Media"

  Journalists, bloggers and editors-in-chief of Azerbaijani editions have demanded from the government to recall the bill "On Media", set up a new working group and return the document for updating, treating its current version as repressive. This law will close free journalists' access to information, activists believe.